As head coach, Nelson emphasized to his players the need to study the Thunder and Lakers games in the second day of practice.

For Nielsen's approach, many people are a little strange, because for a coach like Nelson, many times he emphasizes letting the opponent follow his footsteps, no matter what kind of opponent it is, as long as the Warriors play the strongest offense, the Warriors will be able to win, that is, the realm of Dugu Jiujian, as long as their offense is strong enough, why care about how to defend? But in this game, Nelson actually asked his players, perhaps because Nelson took this game too seriously.

In fact, many players feel that Nelson is becoming more and more incomprehensible now. Words are also less and less, when the game enters the most critical time, a competent coach will arrange his own tactical arrangements, although Nielsen did not have many specific arrangements in the past, but there will be a few words less, but now Nielsen does not even talk much.

Game 5 of the game between the Lakers and the Thunder is the home court of the Lakers. Also three days after the 4th race. The Warriors are just watching the game, they can't run to the scene, and there's no need for that.

The Thunder stood on the edge of the cliff. The pressure on Durant is also extraordinarily high. Many of these pressures are even related to Lin Fei. When selecting the top ten tragic figures under Lin Fei, Durant topped the list. At the same time, the momentum of the original Thunder team amazed everyone, and Durant's performance also made everyone's eyes focus on this young super scorer again, a continuous scoring champion, and was always able to enter the MVP competition, and once led the team to the Western Conference semifinals, but Lin Fei's arrival ruined everything. took away Durant's scoring title, and it was the fourth quarter of the last game of the game, a reversal completed today in front of Durant, and at the same time directly eliminated the Thunder team led by Durant in the first round of the playoffs, which shocked everyone, and the following season, Durant did not have the slightest chance to touch the scoring title, even if his record has improved greatly, but compared to the unnatural play of the Warriors, people can't see the slightest light of the Thunder team. Now the Thunder team has finally passed the first round of the playoffs, and the second round of facing the Lakers has directly made the Lakers play a 3:1. Once again, everyone is starting to disappoint.

On the other hand, the Lakers, maybe they let it go, even if Kobe Bryant is so competitive and wants to tie Jordan's number of rings, but Kobe Bryant is also beginning to realize his age, and he is beginning to know how to enjoy the court, and he knows that it is difficult for him to overcome the opponent he has to face - the Warriors. So relatively speaking, it is relatively open, and at the same time, the game with the Thunder team is also holding a 3:1 lead, and the victory is in hand, which can be regarded as a small step of success.

The game was very intense, although Kobe Bryant watched calmly, but once he was on the court, he was fighting for every ball, and he was very desperate, scoring 28 points on 11-of-23 shooting, plus 7 rebounds and 5 assists, and the Lakers' proud interior twin towers combined to score 40 points and 22 rebounds. Durant, on the other hand, clearly showed a leader, scoring 40 points from 17 free throws, while Westbrook also had 22 points and eight assists. In the end, the Thunder won the game.

The Warriors began to discuss which opponent they would be willing to face.

"Compared to defending Durant, I still think Kobe Bryant is slightly easier" Keynes was the first to speak, "Durant's shot point is too high, Ix and I can't defend at all, and he is the best free throw machine in the league today, you don't know how to defend at all, and Kobe's shooting speed is far less fast than when he was at his peak, even if his shot is difficult to block, but it is easy for the defenders to interfere." Apparently Keynes' choice for these words was to rather run into the Lakers.

"I'm absolutely sure about Fisher! But I'm only 70% sure about Westbrook, I don't know when this guy is going to get mad when he faces me, the way he plays is so good that the only thing we're thankful for is that his shot doesn't work. "Listening to what Lin Fei meant, he would rather run into the Thunder team.

"It's a lot of trouble to defend the Lakers inside. The Thunder's interior defense relies on Ibaka, which is not bad, but the offensive ability is really limited, and we are a team that shoots from the outside and pulls away from the distance, so it is difficult for a player like Ibaka to develop his defensive skills. And their outside defense is not very good, so I think the Thunder will face us, they will be in trouble. But the Lakers' interior line will be relatively balanced, Bynum's ability to control rebounds, we seem to have no way, offense and defense are also relatively balanced, this guy, we must have someone to stand up to help defend, and Gasol was originally a guy who shot inside, but because the Lakers' outside organization ability has weakened, so this guy can often be posted to the high post now, which is good news for us, but also bad news, we may be able to better impact their inside, But their perimeter defense has strengthened. Jobs' words were long, and it was clear that he was a little worried about the Warriors' interior line. This was echoed by Clauderson and Ax.

"Actually, your opponent is far from being as strong as he seems." Just as everyone was talking positively, Nelson started to speak. "The old Chinese saying is: know your opponent and know your friend, you will not be defeated in a hundred battles, and I think it makes a lot of sense, so I let you watch the game. Originally, I believed in another sentence of China, let him wind and rain, I will not move, but I thought about it, we can't reach that kind of realm, that is to say, our offense will never reach absolute perfection, so I still think it is better to understand the opponent. But I want you to understand that when you need to face a difficulty, you imagine it to be difficult, but once you do it, they are not so scary, I remember there is a book in Korea that is "Success is not as hard as you think", and I think it may be useful for basketball philosophy. It's best not to compare your weaknesses directly with those of your opponents, but if you do, there's not that much of a difference. Nelson didn't know what he said, and a few of his players would understand it, but he would still say it, because even if he didn't understand, maybe at some point in the game, maybe someone would understand.